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From fruit tree to fertilizer, join us for a fun and full-circle look at the making of GENU® Pectin. This behind-the-scenes video explores our patented peel process and waste diversion efforts in making pectin.

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THROUGH INNOVATION

A CLOSER LOOK

Our Sustainable
GENU® Pectin

All rights reserved. Video may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of CP Kelco.

From fruit tree to fertilizer, join us for a fun and full-circle look at the making of GENU® Pectin. This behind-the-scenes video explores our patented peel process and waste diversion efforts in making pectin.

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A Recipe for Yogurt Fruit Prep Success

In Innova Market Insights’ recent forecast of food and beverage trends for 2020, one thing was perfectly clear: ingredients matter. Consumers are increasingly interested in what makes up their favorite products. After all, they count on products such as yogurt to help maintain their healthy-but-hectic lifestyles. As we’ll discover, there is one trend set to revolutionize the yogurt market. It’s already in high demand among consumers. And one key ingredient is ready to help your brand succeed.

A Look at Yogurt Trends

According to Innova Market Insights, more than half of all U.S. shoppers purchase yogurt regularly. While it’s still a top choice for breakfast, more consumers are turning to yogurt as a snack. There’s also a shift towards yogurt for dinner, which suggests a growing interest in the more indulgent, dessert-style yogurts. Almost 20% choose yogurt because it’s so convenient, and ambient drinking yogurts are tailor made for the on-the-go lifestyle.

Health claims are also a big part of yogurt’s appeal to consumers. Food Ingredients First reports that more than 60% of all new yogurts made a digestive/gut health claim in 2018 and just about as many claimed to be low fat. Protein is still a megatrend worldwide and yogurt is a great source. However, with many manufacturers striving to reduce sugar, low- and no-sugar claims are on the rise. Over 20% of yogurts launched in 2018 made the low-sugar claim, says Food Ingredients First. That marks a double-digit jump in just four years.

From CP Kelco’s own internal research, we know that consumers want to increase their daily fruit intake, especially in many Asian and developing countries. They are eager to experience new sources, such as fruit yogurt, and combine it with savory flavors, spices and nuts.

The Category to Watch

Industry insiders, including the author of the lifestyle blog Eat For The Planet, call plant-based yogurt “the category to watch in 2019 and beyond.” According to Progressive Grocer, it’s the “new market disruptor,” taking the place of Greek yogurt, and Plant Based Foods Association reports the plant-based yogurt category grew almost 40% in the U.S. in one year – more than plant-based meats and beverages combined! Innova Market Insights says Europe is the leading region for spoonable non-dairy yogurt launches in the first half of 2019. The global non-dairy yogurt market is predicted to increase significantly through 2027, according to Future Market Insights.

The reason? Consumers perceive plant-based foods to be “healthier.”

One look at grocery store shelves will convince you that there isn’t a plant, nut or legume that hasn’t been turned into a dairy alternative. Recent launches seem to favor oat milk with a creamy texture that is well-suited as a yogurt base and coconut cream, which provides rich flavor. There is no clear non-dairy front runner yet, which could make for some interesting competition and lots of choice for consumers.

What Will it Take to Succeed?

Working with plant-based yogurts comes with a unique set of challenges related to taste, texture and formulation. In a competitive market, brands that can master these six criteria will succeed with consumers:

  1. Clean label
  2. Low or no sugar fruit preparation
  3. Interesting flavors
  4. Creamy texture
  5. Plant-based protein
  6. Fresh/fruity taste

The Key Ingredient: GENU® Pectin

Pectin is a familiar ingredient to consumers and produced from citrus peels. As the world’s leading pectin producer with more than 75 years of experience, CP Kelco sources its citrus peels from the juice industry. Pectin provides soluble fiber and can help you meet your clean label formulation requirements.

Pectin adds a nice, creamy texture to your fruit prep with a fantastic shine and a unique flavor release compared to starch. It lets your fruit be the star – consumers see an even distribution of well-preserved, large pieces of fruit. Pectin also has a clean taste that won’t affect your fruit’s natural flavor. It provides a shear-thinning flow to optimize the pumping process without disturbing the fruit. This ensures your fruit prep will remain stable through the manufacturing process – from the transport and processing of the fruit prep itself through your production of stirred, fruit-at-the-bottom, fruit-at-the-top or fruit-on-the-side finished yogurt (with no “floating fruit” migration/reaction to your white mass or thinning down).

We can recommend the following product categories for fruit preparations, based on your needs:

  • HM Pectin (high methylated) is great for suspension and rapid setting at higher temperatures. It is used for traditional high-sugar products.
  • LM Pectin (low methylated) can be used for low-calorie/low-sugar fruit prep. There are a broad range of LM pectins to choose from. Your LM pectin choice will depend on key variables such as your production process, setting temperature, sugar content, preferred texture and whether organic compliance is a requirement.

In addition to using pectin for your fruit preparation, it’s also an excellent, nature-based ingredient for your white mass. Your pectin choice will depend on the formulation content of soluble solids, amount of culture present, protein source, type of sugar and fruit variety, as well as the texture and viscosity you desire. So, play up your yogurt’s indulgence and sensory profile with beautiful layers of fruit and white mass. Reformulate to reduce sugar and add protein. CP Kelco can help you achieve the results you want.

Everyone loves yogurt with fruit throughout it or at the bottom. Yum! A lot of work goes on getting the fruit prep just right for these products – and there are so many fun ways to also use fruit prep, lots of flavors to choose from and combinations to create!

Clean label, equal fruit distribution, reduced sugar, texture, and flavor release, along with filling container and temperature, all play important roles.

We offer an extensive portfolio of pectin grades and a gellan gum texturizing systems designed specifically for yogurt fruit prep applications. Our nature-based ingredients and technical expertise can help get your fruity product ready for the shelves. Use our decades of experience to get your fruit prep just right!

NEWEST INGREDIENT

NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber

FUNCTIONAL BENEFITS: 
  • Supports dietary fiber intake
  • Provides texture
  • Provides syneresis control
  • Supports optimal sensory profile when stirred with the white mass

As classic indulgences evolve with new taste flavors and products, the top considerations for bakery jams and fillings formulation remain the same: the right ingredients and correct processing conditions to combat the inevitable challenges of texture, pumpability, heat stability and syneresis control.

The choice of ingredient often depends on the desired bake stability, percent of soluble solids, and processing conditions. We’re more than happy to help! Our experts can help you formulate for both pre-and post-bake products, such as:

  • Jam for doughnuts
  • Layer cake fillings
  • Breakfast bar fillings
  • Cookie fillings
  • Pie fillings
  • Pastry fillings

We believe that innovation is key. We offer vast nature-based and sustainable ingredient options, along with unique, global manufacturing methods and capabilities. We deliver the important building blocks to formulate bakery fillings with the desired functionality, appearance and flavor profiles consumers are looking for at the grocery store.

NEWEST INGREDIENT

NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber

FUNCTIONAL BENEFITS: 
  • Supports dietary fiber intake
  • Provides texture with fruity taste
  • Provides syneresis control
  • Supports bake/heat stability

Developing delicious class jams, jellies and fruit spreads, or even featuring innovative flavor and texture profiles, has never been easier thanks to CP Kelco’s well recognized and respected role in the fruit processing industry.

We offer a range of nature-based ingredients, many of which were designed for specific fruit applications, and prized for consistent quality from batch to batch – not to mention the ability to help you create a cleaner label with reduced sugar or recognizable ingredients.

Gelling agents are key when it comes to choosing ingredients suitable for either high- and low-solid jams, jellies or fruit spreads. Work with our technical experts to develop quality formulas with exactly the right amount of desired soluble solids, texture, syneresis control, and pH stability to fill at the right temperature in the right container.

NEWEST INGREDIENT

NUTRAVA® Citrus Fiber

FUNCTIONAL BENEFITS: 
  • Supports dietary fiber intake
  • Provides texture with fruity taste
  • Provides syneresis control

Fruits are wonderful but not always easy to work with and finding the perfect nature-based ingredients for fruit applications is not an easy task. The right ingredients are essential in fruit processing formulas to create the right texture at the right temperature, pH level, and solids level to perform well in the manufacturing and transportation process.

These ingredients also are key to impart heat stability and pumpability in bakery fillings, thermo-reversibility in bakery glazes, and starch reduction/replacement in both yogurt fruit preparations and bakery fillings.

When it comes to fruit applications, we offer extensive in-house expertise in nature-based ingredients, global lab capabilities, supported by technical experts working with a vast portfolio of nature-based, sustainable products.

Specifically, our extensive GENU® Pectin grades are well-recognized and respected for tailored performance in specific applications, as well as for consistent quality from batch to batch. These grades also are ideal for achieving a clean label – recognizable ingredients, with non-GMO options and/or organic compliance while preserving desired flavor, texture and appearance in your product.